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Kathryn B. Francis
ORCID iD Cognovo Department of Philosophy & School of Psychology, University of Reading, UK

Kathryn B. Francis is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and School of Psychology at the University of Reading, UK. Prior to starting her postdoctoral position, Kathryn received her PhD in psychology from Plymouth University, UK. Kathryn’s research interests concern the judgment-behaviour gap in moral decision-making. To investigate this gap, Kathryn has compared moral actions simulated in virtual reality, to moral judgments made in theoretical scenarios. More broadly, Kathryn’s work examines responses to philosophical thought experiments, presented in various modalities, in both morality and epistemology.

Agi Haines
ORCID iD Cognovo Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University, UK

Before becoming a CogNovo fellow Haines studied Graphic Design and attended the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art, while also working as a sculptor, studio hand and production assistant. The main focus of her work is the design of the human body. How might people respond to the possibilities of our body as another everyday material and how far can we push our malleable bodies while still being accepted by society? Expressing this research through fabrication, film and effects she is currently broaching these topics in her PhD research and through talks, teaching and exhibitions.

Raluca A. Briazu
ORCID iD Cognovo School of Psychology, Plymouth University, UK

Prior to her PhD Raluca’s interest was in psychological measurement, namely in understanding how widely used measures of cognition are used in clinical trials of neurodegenerative disorders. In her PhD research Raluca used this psychometric knowledge to develop novel measurement paradigms in order to assess counterfactual thinking and deception. Currently her research is concerned with investigating how people use hypothetical ideas about how things could have been in order to generate deceptive statements.